This week symfony welcomed a new member for its core team. Besides, symfony project set up repository mirrors for the most important external libraries. In addition, another milestone was achieved with the 700th published plugin.

I have been the symfony Community Manager for just over two weeks now, but so far things have been silent. This has been for several reasons (new job, preparing for Symfony Day) but also to work out some plans I have. I have also received a couple of excellent ideas from the community, which I will be following up in the coming months.

Symfony popularity continued growing this week as demonstrated by the five new symfony bloggers and the seven new plugins published. Doctrine integration also showed a remarkable activity, including a new combo build task that merges and deprecates six tasks.

Symfony project introduced this week its new community manager and detailed its future symfony 1.3 and 1.4 releases. In addition, symfony marketplace expanded with new developers available to hire and new symfony job postings.

The January 2010 end of maintenance for symfony 1.0 is fast approaching.
Though we may feel a certain attachment to this first stable release of
symfony, discontinuing its support is a natural step in the evolution of the
project.